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Re:Managing Machines at Spotify by be_erik on Sunday April 10, 2016 @01:07PM (#11467069)
"We also assigned each server a static unique identifier in the form of a woman’s name – a shrinking namespace with thousands of servers."

Let me fix that for you; stop gendering your servers.

Re:Managing Machines at Spotify by akerl_ on Sunday April 10, 2016 @01:10PM (#11467095)
If they'd instead said "We assigned each server a static ID in the form of a female computer scientist's name", we'd be here praising them for their forward-thinking inclusion. Maybe lets not see everything as offense-worthy?
Re:Managing Machines at Spotify by negz on Sunday April 10, 2016 @03:55PM (#11467852)
FWIW a team of largely men using womens' names for servers always felt a bit icky to me personally for reasons I couldn't quite enunciate. We now use ungendered serial numbers.